The western front was a big part of world war one. Fierce battles were fought on the western front resulting in thousands of deaths and injuries. The rats was a big problems and the infestation was bad with lice and shell shock. The trenches were dirty and they had to go through unfortunate living conditions with rubbish and weak trench materials. The weather was really hard to deal with and they also got feet infection because of the water. The daily death and fighting was a struggle and they were
carry with them for the rest of their lives. Erich Maria Remarque, a World War I veteran, recreated his own personal war experience on paper, resulting in one of the most critically acclaimed anti-war movement novels of all time, All Quiet on the Western Front. The voice of the novel, Paul Baumer, describes his daily life as a soldier during the First World War. Through the characters he creates in the novel, Remarque addresses his own issues with the war. Specifically, Remarque brings to light the idea
lower-middle-class family. In 1916, he was drafted into the German army to fight in World War I where he was badly wounded. Ten years after the war ended, he published a book which was translated a year later into English with the title All Quiet on the Western Front. This is a novel about the experiences of ordinary German soldiers during World War I. Remarque starts off the novel by stating, "This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure
In the written texts All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, The Bridge on the River Kwai by Pierre Boulle, For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemmingway and the visual text Saving Private Ryan directed by Steven Spielberg an accurate idea of the war genre can be comprehensively ascertained. Certain aspects constituting this genre are the horrors of warfare, comradeship which forms between soldiers with common aims and ultimately survival. These strands are intrinsic attributes of
around, there isn’t a day that goes by that we aren’t faced with the disagreements and opinions we have. The actions we take either heroic or villainous are cause by these conflicts. In All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque tells the story of young man, Paul who traveled to the front during World War l. He tells of the horrors and truth of war that the soldiers faced daily and the action they took to try to stay alive. We need to learn in conflict that there are heroic actions that
All Quiet on the Western Front is a novel which examines the emotional wounds and traumas experienced by troops fighting in the trenches of World War I and the disparity between the nationalistic sentiment with a sense of duty that dominated thinking of the day against the grim realities of combat. The author illustrates these aforementioned points by telling the stories of several troops on the front line depicting both their external realities and way of life along with their methods of handling
their works reflect this history. Yearly acknowledges that “All Quiet on the Western Front is not Baumer’s description of war as what occurred in various places at specific times but describes war as a condition.” (HOW DO I CITE THIS!), yet this same analysis occurs in Owen’s works, Though from different sides of the conflict, the writings of Wilfred Owen in “Strange Meeting” and Erich Maria Remarque in All Quiet on the Western
making it one of the bloodiest conflicts in history. In the novel All Quiet on the Western Front, author Erich Maria Remarque describes the life of a WWI soldier and the effects it had on the men. Wilfred Owen wrote the poem Dulce et Decorum Est as a soldier during the war. Similarly, this poem focused on describing a scene of tired, weary soldiers experiencing one of their comrades dying. Both All Quiet on the Western Front and Dulce et Decorum Est focus on showing the horrors of war, challenging the
All Quiet on the Western Front, by Erich Maria Remarque, uses intense imagery to show the reader the realities of war. The book sends a jarring anti-war message without directly coming out as being against the war. Throughout the book, the main theme, running through almost every page, is the impact war has on the teenage soldiers. They are the lost generation. Since the book is written from the first person perspective of Paul Bäumer, a 19-year-old soldier, it explicitly captures the effect of war
To Kill a Mocking Bird/ All Quiet on the Western Front Equipped with strong moral compasses and views ahead of their time, Harper Lee and Erich Maria Remarque produced novels that will be treasured for an eternity. ‘To Kill a Mocking Bird’, set in the tired old town of Maycomb County, Alabama during the 1930’s, delves deep into the everyday racial slurs, sexist assumptions, and diversity of family life. ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ is a confronting slice of literary genius. Much like Lee, Remarque’s